If you dance all night,
And fill your heart with joy
If you are determined to see
The Beloved in every glance
And you fill your cup with
Her most gracious mercy
You will not long walk this world
Disappointed.
(c) Sare Liz Anuszkiewicz, 2018.
Love
Step One
First, you must stop.
Stop what?
Stop most everything
Everything but Love
And even somethings you thing are love, but are, in fact,
Something else.
Getting to step one
Has only taken you
Twelve billion years, give or take
And so, I congratulate you–
You are finally ready
And all of Heaven rejoices.
Stopping is hard at first –
It helps to begin with noticing.
Where am I less than loving?
In my thoughts,
In my words,
In my deeds,
To myself,
To others,
To everything?
If you like, start noticing it
In other people.
Don’t get too carried away, though.
For every single thing you notice
In someone else
Also resides in you.
Judge not,
Lest you be judged.
And then, when you’re good and ready,
Begin to stop.
Stop the hate.
Stop the division.
Stop the jealousy.
Stop the lying.
Stop the manipulation.
Stop the pain-creation.
Stop all shred of negativity.
Take a fast from anger and
Never go back.
Cleanse your inner self,
Just as you might cleanse your colon.
You will find that your sensitivity increases
Allowing you to stop even mroe
At even deeper levels.
It is inevitable in this process
That you discover about yourself
Horrific things
Hiding under carpets
And in the closets of your soul.
Don’t be afraid.
They were there ten minutes before you found them and freaked out.
And when you have started
Step One
In earnest
You can begin Step Two.
But don’t worry.
You’ll be back,
Before you’re done.
(c) Sare Liz Anuszkiewicz, 2018.
Spirals
The Divine moves
in spirals
circling
ever
inward
towards
your heart.
(c) 2017 Michael Anuszkiewicz
The Gift of Hot Days
On hot days
Everything slows down
Everything becomes simple.
Stay cool.
This is the gift of the
Hot days:
It teaches us to
Listen.
Our bodies scream loudly
On hot days
“Drink water!
Stay cool!
Slow down!”
And our big, complex world
Becomes small.
And only the essentials
Remain.
The gift of
Hot days
Is to teach us there is
A core
At the center
Of our complex life
And when push comes to
Shove
Only the Core remains.
So it goes with your
Soul,
Which craves
But one thing
Though the one thing
Masquerades as many.
On a hot day
Your soul cries out
For Love alone.
(c) Sare Liz Anuszkiewicz, 2017
Constant Shifting
This world
is filled with violence
in a constant shifting
ebb and flow.
Even things that look
peaceful,
like a beautiful bubbling stream
with an impressive waterfall,
are very slowly
grinding
down
the mountain.
Everything here returns
to dust,
sometimes quite painfully
with lots of angst
along the way.
That is why we are told
to love without reason.
For we are all
really
confronted with the same
problem.
Remember this,
and remember also,
that everyone who reacts
in anger
is really repeating
the same ancient mistake.
Everyone who kills
is forgetting
that she
or he
is sister or brother
to all the world.
Hatred is
the original
insanity.
Learn to embrace
your sanity.
It is there.
Listen to the voice
of love within.
It may be very quiet
if you haven’t been
paying attention.
Remember
that we are all stuck
in this madness
together.
And we all
free each other
with the love we give
and the peace
we share.
So love, my friends,
love.
(c) 2017 Michael Anuszkiewicz
The Missing Thing
It’s not-entirely-untrue
That you have
A God-shaped hole
In your life.
As a matter of fact,
You do.
But it’s not as small
As you think.
It’s God-shaped,
Yes,
And you-sized.
You are the God-shaped hole.
So, fill yourself with Love.
Fill yourself with Peace.
Fill yourself, your emptiness
With All Eternity.
Accept no substitute
For you cannot —
How could you be —
Satisfied
With anything else
Anything beyond
The Missing Thing
To begin with?
(c) Sare Liz Anuszkiewicz, 2017
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